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Ryan Trecartin is an American artist and filmmaker currently based in Athens, Ohio. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA in 2004. Trecartin has since lived and worked in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Miami.
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08 December 2013
In Comma Boat, we're stuck in a mock-authoritarian fantasy--a power trip. The film centers around a director-character played by Trecartin who oscillates between feelings of omnipotence and self-doubt.
10 February 2013
In Item Falls, we are peaking. We start out at a casting call, but before long we're firmly in the grip of hallucination, shedding our anxieties and evidently regressing to the animation era, a time when stunt chickens were mere chicklets.
30 March 2024
Two sisters are thrown out of their isolation and onto opposite coasts of America by a terrifying cosmic entity.
01 January 2001
This rare collection of Ryan Trecartin's early short films, produced as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, showcase the artist's maturation in experimental video which would culminate in his debut feature film - "A Family Finds Entertainment.
19 July 2006
Trecartin describes (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.) as a "narrative video short that takes place inside and outside of an e-mail.
01 January 2010
In Ready, Wait, played by Trecartin, is introduced as the eponymous figure of the series. Wait waits.
04 May 2010
Roamie View: History Enhancement reveals JJ as a husk of his former self, overwhelmed by too many experimental personalities and reverted to factory presets.
08 April 2015
The video displays Fitch and Trecartin's signature style of ludicrous cut-scenes and ironic hyperbole.
01 January 2001
In Kitchen Girl, Trecartin's frequent collaborator Lizzie Fitch throws herself into a state of total hysteria, portraying a girl who takes the childhood game of "playing house" to a dark and disturbing place.
02 November 2013
In Junior War, a throng of highschoolers congregate at night for a party in the woods sometime in the year 2000.
18 July 2010
The movie is actual market research collected by Wait for Y-Ready. It doubles as the site of Wait's vacation, as well as echoed versions of scenarios from other sections of Any Ever from which characters either reappear or are replicated here as young girls.
01 January 2016
Permission Streak opens with a question: “Can you tell the difference between a camera and a camera?” Shown in a sculptural theater that combines aspects of gymnastics and aquatics facilities, the movie jumps jarringly between a string of unrelated vignettes, highlighting the potential for encountering confusion or deception in seemingly innocuous situations.
30 July 2009
The video revolves around an unending "meeting" - a busy, aimless meeting that goes in circles to evade a traditional narrative arc.
01 January 2002
In Yo! A Romantic Comedy, Trecartin borrows clichés from hip-hop culture and genre films to craft a dark, dream-like narrative that veers from comic melodrama to goth fantasy.
01 January 2003
Trecartin and his collaborator/co-star Lizzie Fitch ponder the messages delivered by the most banal forms of mass media and pop culture in their own unique version of a music video.
01 March 2001
Trecartin crafts a fantastical narrative about a girl whose obsessive personal utopia is disrupted. Trecartin's collaborator, Lizzie Fitch, plays a girl obsessed with Valentine's Day.
01 January 2002
A short film showcasing the artist’s maturation in experimental video which would culminate in his debut feature film – “A Family Finds Entertainment.
19 April 2009
Trecartin returns to his conception of family-as-business-enterprise, casting parent figures as managers and executives on one end of the spectrum, estranged children as freelancers on the other.
01 January 2010
Temp Stop, as the title implies, has a disjunctive quality that separates it from the other parts of Re'Search Wait'S.
13 January 2010
In P.opular S.ky (section ish), a character played by Trecartin informs us that she wants ‘to live in a world where narration is the devil’.
29 September 2013
The film focuses on the life of Jenny who has, according to many of the other characters, become too “left-of-center” while pursuing her interests.
08 August 2016
Shot in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles – a five-story warren of large, cavernous rooms akin to a windowless convention center – Temple Time unfolds like a horror-movie group expedition in a campsite wasteland.
12 March 2005
A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’.
08 September 2007
Dazzling and raucous, Ryan Trecartin's first feature-length video takes cues from chat rooms, social networking web sites, YouTube, John Waters, and Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and then turns them upside down and inside out to create an entirely singular video genre.
21 October 2016
For the tenth anniversary of W's November art issue, supermodels Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are inducted into the futuristic world of Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin.
16 June 2003
Trecartin's extraordinary digital manipulations reach a new level as he speculates in vivid animation about reproduction, sexuality, and contemporary moralities.
25 August 2019
A delirious movie installed inside a ghostly barn made with prefabricated materials. The oscillatory movement of the rocking chairs on which visitors sit partly helps to alleviate the syncopated rhythm of the montage and the frenzy of images that follow.
20 April 2020
Colony Panderson and Reverse Stacy take watch tower knocks.
25 March 2022
Human past and future intersect in a non-linear, natural history meta-documentary about ourselves: Homo sapiens.
02 September 2016
Shot in 2013 - In 'honor, of cause fake news - less gravity here - don't bird watch with a gun - remember your dreams before they remember you : the sloppy mix, bullshit version coming near soon USA.
